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Don't you hate it when you dream you read a wonderful story but you can only remember part of it when you wake up? I had one of those last night,
Post-war. Tonks and Lupin as a couple, but Lupin is sterile (due to werewolfism) and they want to have kids. For some reason -- maybe genetic counseling or something -- Tonks decides that she'll have strong healthy *magical* kids if she gets Snape to father them. She decides to ask him to do so, but under a contract that assumes that he wants nothing to do with kids and would have no rights to them.
Lupin winds up having tea with new Headmistress Sprout as Tonks tries to make her proposal to Snape. Pomona is very calm and wise and quite disappointed in Remus as well as Tonks for doing this.
Lupin dosn't see why. It's a fairly straightforward proposal, in accordance with the traditions of pureblood's pedigree obsession.
Sprout explains that Snape is still *grieving* and they (Tonks and Lupin) are taking a lot of things for granted. She implies that Minerva McGonagall would be upset with them. Also, that Minerva wouldn't have understood Severus' upset but would have stood by him -- "not that I would have expected her to, she was a cat, not a swan. Poor lad." implying that Snape is a swan Animagus, complete with a Hogwarts swan mark
Remus will remember that at Minerva's funeral Snape laid a swan's feather in her hand -- very strange, since it hadn't been a quill, just a feather.
Then it petered out... I think it resolved with Snape agree after a bunch of pissy arguements and an agreement that one of the kids would be his legally and he and Tonks and Lupin would work something out, though not live together full time. Including some metaphor about how pinioning a swan makes it less lovely than one that can fly
I think the story was about grief, and healing and the disruption a society goes through after a war, and how people change and don't change in response. It would be enormously long, but the only really good scene is Lupin and Sprout in the Head's office, with Sprout very gently but very firmly reproving Lupin.
Post-war. Tonks and Lupin as a couple, but Lupin is sterile (due to werewolfism) and they want to have kids. For some reason -- maybe genetic counseling or something -- Tonks decides that she'll have strong healthy *magical* kids if she gets Snape to father them. She decides to ask him to do so, but under a contract that assumes that he wants nothing to do with kids and would have no rights to them.
Lupin winds up having tea with new Headmistress Sprout as Tonks tries to make her proposal to Snape. Pomona is very calm and wise and quite disappointed in Remus as well as Tonks for doing this.
Lupin dosn't see why. It's a fairly straightforward proposal, in accordance with the traditions of pureblood's pedigree obsession.
Sprout explains that Snape is still *grieving* and they (Tonks and Lupin) are taking a lot of things for granted. She implies that Minerva McGonagall would be upset with them. Also, that Minerva wouldn't have understood Severus' upset but would have stood by him -- "not that I would have expected her to, she was a cat, not a swan. Poor lad." implying that Snape is a swan Animagus, complete with a Hogwarts swan mark
Remus will remember that at Minerva's funeral Snape laid a swan's feather in her hand -- very strange, since it hadn't been a quill, just a feather.
Then it petered out... I think it resolved with Snape agree after a bunch of pissy arguements and an agreement that one of the kids would be his legally and he and Tonks and Lupin would work something out, though not live together full time. Including some metaphor about how pinioning a swan makes it less lovely than one that can fly
I think the story was about grief, and healing and the disruption a society goes through after a war, and how people change and don't change in response. It would be enormously long, but the only really good scene is Lupin and Sprout in the Head's office, with Sprout very gently but very firmly reproving Lupin.